Three Harford County field hockey teams played for region titles Wednesday and two, Bel Air and Patterson Mill, both won, while Fallston fell short. At Patterson Mill, the Huskies squared off with Perryville for a second straight year in the region final setting. And for the second consecutive...
The Board of Public Works on Wednesday approved $82 million in budget cuts proposed by Gov. Larry Hogan to help close a gap left by revenues that have fallen as much as $225 million short of expectations. The three-member board, which has the power to make cuts midway through the budget year, voted...
The president of Baltimore City Community College told lawmakers Tuesday that he opposes a recommendation that the school join into the University System of Maryland. Gordon May, who has led BCCC for the past two years, said the school is making progress in the face of recent enrollment declines...
Baltimore's housing agency did not consistently meet key goals in eliminating blight and enforcing housing and building codes, a new audit reports. The performance audit of the Department of Housing and Community Development was performed by Hamilton Enterprises LLC. It is the sixth completed agency...
Television stations owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group will ask viewers to go to polling places on Election Day and capture smartphone video for news broadcasts or websites, to give audiences first-person voter accounts while putting "eyes and ears" on the contentious presidential election. Sinclair,...
Marylanders shattered the state's early-voting record Monday after more than 500,000 people cast ballots in five days. And there are still three days left in this year's early-voting period. Voters are making a choice in the hotly contested presidential race between Democrat Hillary Clinton and...
State environmental regulators expect to be months late with reports detailing how actively they investigate polluters — a sign, some lawmakers say, that Maryland may not have enough resources to enforce laws intended to protect the Chesapeake Bay and public health. A report due each October reveals...
A woman was grazed by a bullet in Charles Village early Wednesday morning, according to Baltimore Police. Officers responded to the 2700 block of Saint Paul Street about 1:30 a.m. and found the woman with a graze wound to the leg, police said. The location is south of the Homewood Campus of the...
While the West Baltimore contractor that owned the school bus involved in Tuesday's deadly collision with a Maryland Transit Administration bus had a clean federal safety record the past two years, one of its buses was involved in a crash four years ago that injured at least 13 people. The bus...
Six people were killed and 10 were injured Tuesday morning when a school bus veered into oncoming traffic and ripped through the side of a Maryland Transit Administration bus in Southwest Baltimore, police said. The force of the collision in the 3800 block of Frederick Ave. in Irvington "shook...
President Barack Obama has appointed Morgan State University's vice president for research and economic development to the 25-member National Science Board. Victor McCrary joins the board that establishes policies of the National Science Foundation and advises the president and Congress on matters...
While some schools in the Baltimore region posted solid results on the latest round of state tests, most weren't celebrating. Overall the pass rates are still low on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, a test that has been given for the past two years...
Johns Hopkins Medicine has opened a research center that will look at ways to improve how doctors diagnose disease. The new Armstrong Institute Center for Diagnostic Excellence will be led by Dr. David Newman-Toker, an associate professor of neurology and otolaryngology–head and neck surgery, and...
Marylanders hoping to buy health insurance from Evergreen Health through the state's online insurance exchange, which opened Tuesday, will have to wait. In a bid to stay in business, Evergreen announced plans in October to be acquired by a group of investors and convert from a nonprofit to a for-profit...
The state's online health exchange opens today for enrollment in 2017 health insurance plans. People who do not have coverage through an employer can review plans from four insurers and enroll on the exchange website, marylandhealthconnection.gov. UnitedHealthcare, which covered about 10 percent...
Aided by his wife, Peter Schon wrapped a gray cuff around his upper forearm to take his blood pressure. Within seconds, thanks to wireless technology, his reading popped up on a computer screen in his home near where he sat in a brown leather recliner. A couple of minutes later, the phone rang....
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Robert L. Eney, a pioneering Fells Point preservationist who championed the neighborhood's architecture, died of complications from dementia Sunday. He was 87. "Bob was truly one of a kind," said U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski. "Smart, energetic, talented; he had it all and was just such a great...
Margaret L. Schatz, a clinical social worker who had worked at the Johns Hopkins University Counseling and Psychiatric Services for Students, died Oct. 25 from complications of dementia at Bayleigh Chase, an Easton retirement community. The former Catonsville resident was 79. The daughter of Leo...
Alvin Berry Watson, a former Baltimore City Health Department deputy commissioner, died of heart failure Oct. 23 at Sinai Hospital. The Northwest Baltimore resident was 84. "He lived his life in treating people fairly, regardless of who they were," said his son, Barry K. Watson, a Baltimore resident....
Pasquale "Pat" Pecora, who for decades presided over Pecora's, a well-known Italian restaurant in Towson, died Friday of respiratory failure at Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center & Hospital. The longtime Parkville resident was 76. The son of Giovanni Pecora, a restaurateur, and Anna Pecora, a homemaker,...
A knife expert who prosecutors were prepared to call in the Freddie Gray case said Baltimore's law on switchblades is too vague, creating problems for people who carry certain types of knives as well as police officers trying to enforce the law. City prosecutors initially said Gray's April 2015...
A bill advancing to the full City Council would require greater transparency about who is trying to influence legislation and contracts that are before Baltimore's government. Legislation sponsored by City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young would require the city's finance department to...
In touting its technology, the private Ohio-based company that has conducted hundreds of hours of aerial surveillance on behalf of the Baltimore Police Department since January often pointed to a privacy policy that includes restrictions on footage retention. "All media will be stored in a secure...
Despite a years-long, national push to collect, process and catalog DNA evidence from sexual assaults, police in Maryland have left more than 3,500 rape kits untested. Advocates for rape victims say that number shows that police are not investigating all complaints of sexual assault thoroughly. "More...
A cold front reached the Baltimore region early Monday morning, bringing cool and dry weather for Halloween. Temperatures fell from the lower 60s around midnight to 47 degrees by sunrise at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. Highs are forecast in the upper 50s Monday...
Seasonably cool, dry weather is forecast for trick-or-treaters on Halloween. Temperatures are forecast to fall from the upper 50s into the mid- and lower-50s as costumed kids take to neighborhood streets across the region Monday. Forecasters expect sunny skies during the day and a partly cloudy...
Temperatures hit the freezing mark early Wednesday morning at Baltimore's point of record for the first time since April 10. Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport spent most of the hours between midnight and dawn in the mid-30s and briefly hit 32 degrees before sunrise, according...
The season’s first freeze is likely in outlying Baltimore suburbs late Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning. The National Weather Service has issued a freeze warning for Carroll County and northern Baltimore and Harford counties. Low temperatures are forecast in the lower 30s in those areas....
Towson is one step closer to getting a new park at the site of a parcel owned by Radebaugh Florist & Greenhouses, as County Executive Kevin Kamenetz announced Wednesday that Baltimore County will proceed with the purchase of the 2.36-acre property for $1.1 million, after an environmental study...
The McFaul Activity Center in Bel Air has been one of the busiest early voting locations in the Baltimore region, as Marylanders cast a record number of early ballots in the presidential election. Through the first six days of the early-voting period which ends Thursday, 14,818 Harford County residents...
Last year was the 150th anniversary of one of the most significant events in history, with its roots deep in Harford County. On April 14, 1865 — just days after the conclusion of major hostilities in the Civil War — President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.,...
The first auction of items that belonged to Helen Delich Bentley, the former congresswoman from Maryland who died in August, will take place this week at Alex Cooper Auctioneers in Towson. Bentley, who died Aug. 6 at age 92 from brain cancer, left behind thousands of art pieces and antiques. Her...